{"id":47353,"date":"2026-05-09T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47353"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:37:09","slug":"candidates-with-nepali-origin-elected-councillors-in-uk-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/candidates-with-nepali-origin-elected-councillors-in-uk-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates with Nepali origin elected Councillors in UK local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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United Kingdom, May 9: Jeet Ranabhat, former Mayor with Nepali origin, has been elected Councillor of ‘Plumstead & Glyndon’ ward in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.<\/p>\n

Likewise, his spouse, Gaumaya Gurung, has been elected Councillor in Abbey Wood Ward of the same Borough. Ranabhat who earlier served the Borough as Mayor and Deputy Mayor now has been elected to the Councillor post, securing 1, 610 votes.<\/p>\n

Gurung has been elected to the Councillor for the first time, obtaining 1,292 votes. Both Ranabhat and his spouse Gurung contested the election from the UK’s ruling Labour Party.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jib Narayan Belbase has been elected in Manor Park Ward under the Rashmore Borough of Alders. Conservative Party candidate Belbase has been elected as Councillor for the second time with 891 votes.<\/p>\n

In the same Borough’s Wellington Ward, former Gurkha Uttar Bahadur Gurung has been elected as Councillor with 551 votes.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Pratiksha Gurung has been elected in Reading Borough’s Battle Ward from the Labour Party with 1,180 votes. He became the first Councillor of Nepali origin after being elected in Reading Borough.
\nConservative Party candidate Lakshya Gurung has been elected Councilllor third time from the Edgwarebury Ward of London Borough of Barnet. He received 1,951 votes.<\/p>\n

In the elections held in the UK on Thursday, around a dozen and a half candidates of Nepali origin contested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United Kingdom, May 9: Jeet Ranabhat, former Mayor with Nepali origin, has been elected Councillor of ‘Plumstead & Glyndon’ ward in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. Likewise, his spouse, Gaumaya Gurung, has been elected Councillor in Abbey Wood Ward of the same Borough. Ranabhat who earlier served the Borough as Mayor and Deputy Mayor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-overseas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47355,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353\/revisions\/47355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}